by Eric Noir » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:07 pm
Eric zipped through the garden, scanning the ground. Someone may have thought him a dragonfly if not paying attention. He was looking for bits and pieces left behind by other students. Generally people tended to drop things that of late he had found useful. The Garden wasn't exactly his favorite place. Too many insects. Even if it were a butterfly, at his size seeing them up close was less pleasant an experience. As such he avoided the flower beds and tried sticking to the paths trodden by students.
"Ah-ha!" he said, as he spotted the glint of plastic. He whizzed down and landed by a bench. A abandoned pen lay beneath it, likely dropped by someone who had sat there. He pulled it out and examined it. It was a retractable ballpoint, a nice find. Since he had accepted his smaller size, he had began making his own stuff from scratch since nearly everything was too big for him. He had to craft his own writing utensils, clothes and furniture if he wanted anything of the sort. He was looking into carving, metalworking, mechanics and other such fields to better his skills. At his size, even scraps could have a potential use for him and a mechanical pen had parts he could salvage. He lifted the pen onto his shoulder and flew up to the top of the bench, looking out over the path for anything else of potential use.